Teaching in a networked classroom
is like the story of the time when all the small
animals and large animals had a football game. As you
might expect, at half-time the score was 42 to 0 in
favor of the large animals. So the rabbit, who was
captain of the small animals, was starting to get
pretty panicky. But when the second half opened and
the large animals were on the offense and they handed
the ball off to the hypo, the millipede raced in and
tackled him. Next play, the ball was handed to the
rhinoceros and the millipede raced through again and
tackled him for a loss. Then the rabbit
called a huddle and said to the millipede, "My
God! Where the hell were you the first half?"
And the millipede said, "Putting on my
sneakers." That's a very thinly veiled metaphor
for the networked classroom. Sometimes is takes a
little while to get it running, but once it gets
running it kicks ass!
-- Trent Batson
